THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.
ALLEGED TORTURE OF PRISONERS. A CANADIAN PROTEST. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, ST. PETERSBURG, March 16. (Received March 17, at 9.9 a.m.) The Slovo states that over 200 persons were sentenced by courts-martial in the Baltic provinces and executed in February. Numerous executions were :arried out without any trial. Terrible stories are being told of tortures inflicted by the Warsaw police to compel prisoners to confess. OTTAWA, March 16. (Received March 17, at 8.45 a.ni.) Mr MacDonuell's resolution in the Canadian House of Commons proposing that an address be sent to the King deploring the inhuman massacre of Jews in Russia was adjourned at Sir Wilfrid LaurierV instance, on.the ground that it was doubtful if a colonial Assembly had tho right to advise the Imperial authorities on a- matter wholly within a sphere foreign to their relation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13545, 19 March 1906, Page 5
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